The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-09

was barely scratched. His thumb was
! knocked out of place and he says he
did it knocking, and only fought fair Hop
| k1ns was, however, cut by some one severe
ly in several places on the head. His son
| Dennie had beer bottle broken over his
head, which severely cut him. Dennis
| thought the bursting of the bottle a report
of gun and cried out that he was shot.
Nobody seems TO know who threw the bot
tie or did the cutting. Only one set was
| danced before the fight. So the party was
broken up early in the night. The question
is where did that beer bottle come from in
a Prohibition county. Pittman and Hop
kins are both well-to-do men and good citi-
Zens.
The applications for annuitles to disabled
soldiers continue to pour in, and Secretary
Harrison contemplates using an electric mo
tor to his right arm to keep up with the
procession. In the list of applications
Wednesday We're many cases of interest.
Capt John H. Baker, Company A, Thir-
tenth Georgia, Gordon's brigade, at Mon
acacy received a confused wound of the left
part of the abdomen, and at Malvern Hill
had his left leg fractured by a shell and the
bone of his left foot broken by shot. Robert
Hutchinson, Thirty-fifth Georgia, Thomas
brigade, in the battle of the Wilderness had
both eyes instantly destroyed by single
gun shot wound David F. Coins, of the
Fifty-fourth Georgia, at the battle of
Kennesaw, was shot in the palm of his
hand and his fingers are contracted
toward the palm, rendering the hand
useless. w. NJ. Tidd, of the Second Geor-
gia, Toombs's brigade, in the battle at Gar
nett's farm, was shot in the right hip and
ankle and in both arms; necrosis of the bones
ensued from the wounds and he can only
walk by the aid of crutches and a stick
James H. Pettlgrew, of the Sixth Georgia, in
the battle of Drewry's bluff, received
wound in the saper clavacular region,
which injured the nerves supplying the Diet
told and other muscles of the shoulder and
arm, or in the language of Judge Nisbet,
wounded in the neck, paralyzing the left
arm and hand, rendering the arm useless to
perform manual labor" Absalom Booth,
of the Thirty-eighth Georgia, in the battle
around Richmond was shot through the left
hip, causing paralysis of the left leg and
foot and in the right arm and shoulder.
In the case of j. B. Merck, of Hall
county, VS.. the American Freehold Land
Mortgage Company, of London. Chief
Justice Bleckley delivered the decision of
the court Wednesday to the effect that the
fees charged the borrower do not come
under the head Of usury. Mr.. Merck is
farmer in Hall county Nelson q Barker,
of Atlanta, were engaged in the business Of
finding men anxious to borrow money, and
men Wiling 10 loan money MI l-dLuer
represented Nelson e. Barker in Gainesville.
Mr. Merck applied for a loan through Lat
ner in writing, agreeing to pay a commits
sion of 20 per cent for the loan of $500.
Nelson & Barker sent the application to the
Corbin Banking Company, of New York,
who presented it to j. K. 0. Sherwood, sole
agent in the United States of the
American Freehold Land Mortgage
Company, of London, and he agreed
to loan the $4OO, which he did, his
company advancing the full amount of the
$500 OF the 20 per cent commission, 10
per cent was paid to the Corbin Banking
Company, per cent to Nelson e. Barker,
and 4 per cent. to Latner. The American
Freehold Land Mortgage Company, of
London, had no interest in the compensa-
ton paid to the Intermediates. There was
no connection between either Of the par
ties. When the second interest note fell
due and remained unpaid for thirty days,
the American Freehold Land Mortgage
Company instituted suit to recover the prin-
cipal, interest and attorneys fees. The de-
Tense set up the plea that the $50 commits
sion, attorneys fees and interest on interest
was usury, and also pleaded failure of con-
sidaratiOn